PHP - Filtering by MySQL field value

Question

I\'ve got a table with some rows that contain 3 fields (category, title, image). At first I created a foreach loop that returned some html with the information from each of the

Answer 1

Either use the WHERE clause as asifrc suggested.

Or do something like this

while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    if($row['category'] == 'category1') {
      // do some stuff example
      $html_output .= '
Important category: ' . $row['title'] . '
';
    } else if($row['category'] == 'category2') {
      // do other stuff
      $html_output .= '
Not important category: ' . $row['title'] . '
';
    }
}